Ham boiler



Dec, 1,1925 1,563,985

F. E. HoDDERsEN-BALLING HAM BOILER Filed April 23, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 lig. 1 15 L9 Dec. 1, 1925.

F. E. HODDERSEN-BALLING HAM BOILER Filed April 23, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet Patented Dec. l, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAM IBOILEB..

Application filed April 23, 1925. Serial No, 25,250.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FREDERICK EDWARD HoDDERsEN-BALLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ham Boilers, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to ham boilers, an

l0 object of the invention being to provide an improved ham boiler so constructed that the waste a't the knuckle end of the ham is reduced-to :a minimum while the ham is S0 shaped as to insure the proper slicing thereof, and` which boiler will be simple in construction and operation. A further object of the invention is the provision of an improved boiler in -which the cover can be readily and quickly attached and detached by a simple improved locking means eliicient to maintain the cover in place during pressing and cooking of the ham and the manipulation of the boiler by the operator.'

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional viewv of this improved ham boiler; Fig. `2 isa top view thereof with the cover in place; Fig. 3 is a cross sectional viewk taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows; Fig. 4 is a detail view of one end of the body of the'boilen; Fig. 5 is a top view of the cover with the handle bar removed; Fig. 6 is a detail partly sectional 35,1 view of the latch member and its cooperating latch at one end of the body, and Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of the swinging latch member.

Similar characters of reference indicate 40 corresponding parts in the several views. Before explaining in detail the present improvement and mode of operation thereof, I desire to have it understood that the invention is not limited to the details of construction. and arrangement of parts which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, since the invention is capable of other embodiments, and that the phraseology "which I employ is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.

` This improved ham boiler comprises a body 2 of oval form having a bottom 3 provided with an inclined portion or end 4, which. bottom is connected with the side walls 5 by a sloping wall 6, thus avoiding sharp cornersdiilicult to clean and keep in a sanitary condition.k It also saves metal and' reduces the weight ofthe boiler. The inclined bottom portlon is rovided with a keel 7 which enables the boi er to rest firmly upon any suitable support without tipping forward. The cover 8 of suitable form to tit into the body comprises a flat plate, which by reason of the construction hereinafter described, may have but a very short depending flange 9 or no flange at all, since the stiiiening or reinforcing means, about to be described, will sufficiently reinforce the cover so that this ange may be made as short as ossible. l

Exten ing lengthwise of the cover midway of its Width is a reinforcing rib 10 having near each end a pair of cross reinforcing bars or members 11 rib-connected with the longitudinally extending rib as at 12. This construction eiiiciently reinforces the cover, which together with the body, will be preferably made of aluminum, so that the necessity of having .a long depending flange on the cover is avoided.

The handle bar 13, which serves not only as a means for manipulating the boiler, but

also for locking the cover to the body coinprises alengthwise extending bar provided along its-underside with a reinforcing rib 14 and for a part of its top side with a similar reinforcing rib 15. This handle bar is provided with a pair of recessed and elongated slots 16 for the `reception of headed bolts 17 projecting into the rib of the cover adjacent to the cross ribs thereof.

The longitudinally extending rib on the cover together with that on the handle bar serves to limit the downward movement of the handle bar and thus prevent the heads ofv the bolts from projecting beyond the top of the handle bar and catching in the top side edges of the slots. The elongated character of the slots enables one end of the handle bar to be -pressed further down than the other and thebar to have a somewhat longitudinal movement relatively to the cover, which enables the locking hooks, hereinafter referred to, to be self-adjusting and a firmer engagement thereof with the body ratchet maintained.

The handle bar is provided with a pair of rib reinforced cross bars 18, the endsx of which terminate in tubular sockets 19 for the reception of coil sprin s 19 the lower ends of which receive stu S20 carried at the ends of the cross ribs of the cover. Thus the handle bar is connected tothe cover midway ofthe length thereof by a pair of headed bolts and also has a resilient four point connection with the cover whereby a better and more equal compression and shaping of the ham is obtained when it is placed in the boiler and also a better and more equal shaping thereof obtained during the cooking of the ham. The handle bar is provided at each end with a swinging member or latch lever 21, as' it is herein called, each provided with a pair of'transversely -extending teeth or hooks, one as 22 located horizontally of the latch member at lts lower s lookin end and the other 23 extending vertically along one -edge of the latch level'. vThe horizontally located teeth are crosswise inclined, the inclination of the teeth of one latch member being opposite to that of the other and both teeth are beveled inward toward the lever. r

Carried at each end of the body for co.- operating with lthe latch lever is a set of ratchet teeth 24 likewise crosswise inclined those at one end of the body being inclined opposite to those at the other end of the body and these ratchet teeth along one edge,

are out or beveled inwardly to form a set of cooperating vertical teeth 25 for the vertically located toothV or hook 23 of its ratchet lever. The vertically located tooth of one latch member is on the opposite side from that of the other latch member. Thus the handlebar and thereby the `cover is connected at each end of the boiler by a double means which enables the boiler to be rea ily manipulated Vywithout liability of the Icover becoming separated from the body, either during the handling 'or cooking of the ham, since the inclination of thehorizontally extending ratchet teeth tends to pull the vertically extending ratchet teeth into engagement' when the boiler is lifted by the handle bar and thus maintain the covel locked to the body against premature displacement during the handling or cooking of the ham in the boiler. I i Furthermore, the vertically located lockproperl shaped and in which the front end of the lioiler will more nearly conform to the knuckle end of the ham and leave but little space for the/forcing of the fat into this part of the boiler and the consequent waste thereof around the knuckle end of, the ham. At Athe same time the handle bar which serves as a means for connecting the body to the cover and also as a means for manipulating the boiler is eiciently locked to the body by a double form of locking means which, during manipulation of the boiler by the operator tends to increase its holding eiiciency rather than diminish it. In other words, the crosswise inclination of the horizontal locking teeth during the lifting of theboiler `'tends Vto maintain the vertically located locking teeth in proper engagement while at the same time these vertically extending locking teeth tend to hold the horizontal locking teeth of the latch levers in proper cooperating position to engage successive teeth durin the compression of the ham by means of e cover so that each not only performs its own function, but also assists the other in performing its function.

It isto be understood that by describing in detail herein any particular form, structure or arrangement, it is not intended t0 limit the invention beyond the terms of the several claims or the requirements of the prior art.

Having thus explained the nature of my said invention and described away of constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made, or all of the modes of its use, I claim 1. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and cooperating means carried by said swinging member and body and inclined crosswise in the direction of the width of the body.

2. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means for connecting `the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and cooperating means carried by said swingingl member and body and inclined crosswise in the direction of the width of the body and comprising a series of ratchet teeth and a cooperating tooth.

3. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and cooperating means' carried by said swinging member and body and including cooperating vertically disposed teeth carried by said body and swinging member.

4. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and cooperating vertically disposed and horizontally disposed ratchet teeth carried by said body and swinging member.

5. In a ham boiler comprising a body anda cover, a locking means connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and cooperating vertically disposed and horizontally disposed ratchet teeth carried by said body and swinging member, the horizontally disposed teeth being crosswise inclined in the direction of the-width of the body.

6. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and cooperating vertically disposed and horizontally disposed ratchet teeth carried -by said body and swinging member, the

vertically disposed teeth of one part being formed by the ends of the horizontally disposed teeth.

7. In a ham boiler comprising a'body and a cover, a locking means for connecting the coverv with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and having a pair of transversely disposed inwardly projecting teeth and cooperating teeth carried bythe body.

8. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a lockingmeans for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover and having a pair of transversely disposed inwardly projecting teeth and cooperating teeth carried by the body, some of said co- I operating teeth being crosswise inclined in the direction of the width of the body.

9. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected to each end of the cover, and cooperating means carried by said swinging member and body and inclined crosswise in the direction of the width 'of the body, the inclination thereof at one end of the body being opposite4 to that at the other end. y l

10. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected tol each end of the cover and having apair of transversely disposed inwardly projecting teeth, a tooth of one swinging member being oppositely disposed to a similar tooth of the other swinging member, and cooperating teeth carried by the body.

11. In'a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means'for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover,

said swinging member and body having one transversely disposed teeth projecting in the same direction and the other teeth cooperating therewith.

12. In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover,- a locking means for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover, said swinging member and body having one transversely disposed teeth projecting in the same direction and the other teeth cooperating therewith, one of said transversely ds posed teeth and its cooperating` teetlr being inclined crosswise in the direction of the width of the body.

13. In a ham boiler comprising a body and -a cover, a locking means for connecting thecover with the body and comprisingv a swinging member connected with the cover, 'and cooperating means carried by said swinging member and body and comprising transversely disposed teeth carried bythe swinging member and projecting in the same direction, and teeth carried by the body having additional teeth formed at the endsl thereof.

14. In 'a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected with the cover, and cooperating means carried by said swinging member, and body and comprising transversely disposed teeth carried by the swinging member and projecting in the same direction, and teeth carried by the body having additional teeth formed at the ends thereof, some of said teeth being inclined crfsswise in the direction of the width of the bo 153; In a ham boiler comprising a body and a cover, a locking means for connecting the cover with the body and comprising a swinging member connected to each end of the cover, and cooperating means carried by each swinging member and body and comprising v`inwardly projecting transversely disposed teeth, and teeth carried by the body having additional teeth formed-at the ends thereof, some of said teeth being inclined crosswise in the direction of the body, the teeth at one end of the body being inclined in a direction opposite to those at the other end thereof.

16. A ham boiler comprising a body, a cover, a handle bar s ring-connected with the cover, said bar having elongated and recessed slots and'headed means located in said slots for connecting the handle bar with the cover. A v

17. A ham boiler comprisin an' 'oval shaped body having an inclined bottom end,

va cover therefor,a handle bar,"ls"aid.`eover and handle bar each having lengthwise extending reinforcing ribs,leachhaving cross extending members, resilient means betweenthe cross extending members of the handle` bar,and cover, headed bolts connecting the handle bar with the rib of the cover, said handle bar having elongated and recessed slots for the reception of said bolts, swinging latches at the ends of the handle bar and locking means between the latches and the body at each end thereof.

18. A ham boiler comprising an oval shaped hodyfhavi'ng an inclined bottom end, a cover therefor, a handle bar, said cover and handle bar each having lengthwise extending reinforcing ribs, each having cross extending members, resilient means between the cross extending members of the handle bar and cover, headed bolts connect-ing the handle bar with the rib of the cover, said' handle bar having elongated and recessed slots for the reception of said-bolts, swinging latches at the ends of the handle bar and locking means between the latches and the body at each end thereof, said: locking means including two transversely extending ratchet teeth on each latch. v

19. A ham boiler comprising an oval shaped body having an inclined bottom end, a cover therefor, a handle bar, said cover and handle bar each having lengthwise extending reinforcing ribs, each having cross extending members, resilient means between the cross extending members of the handle bar and cover, headed bolts connecting the handle bar with the rib of the cover, said handle bar having elongated and recessed slots for the reception of said bolts, swinging latches at the ends of the handle barand locking means between the latches and the body at each end thereof, said locking means including two transversely extending ratchet teeth on each latch, one of which is inclined crosswise thereof. f

Signed at Brooklyn, New York, this 18 day of April, 1925.

FREDERICK EDWARD HODDERSEN-BALLING. 

